Learning to Live in the Dark by Wen Stephenson - 9798888904343

Learning to Live in the DarkEssays in a Time of Catastrophe\nAuthor(s): Wen Stephenson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Haymarket Books, United States\nImprint: Haymarket Books\nISBN-13: 9798888904343, 979-8888904343\nSynopsis\nIn these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays,Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes.\n\nAfter three decades of failed international efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change, progressive visions of a better world are now increasingly circumscribed by ecological and social breakdown. The geophysical forces unleashed by carbon-fueled global heating have converged with forms of political nihilism not seen since the rise of fascism in the 20th century. For many, despair has become the only honest response.\n\nFaced with the intellectual, moral, and spiritual abyss created by these intersecting crises, Stephenson reaches back to the ideas of mid 20th-centur.